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Secretary, Acting FAA Head Express Regret for Comments Encouraging Air Traffic Controllers With Safety Concerns to "Seek Employment Elsewhere"

February 28, 2008 -- WASHINGTON, DC - Under direct questioning from U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) today at a Senate hearing, U.S.    » read more »

Both FAA and the National Weather Service Need to Better Ensure Product Quality

Senators Say FAA Must Take Action to Relieve Stress on Air Traffic Controllers in Order to Ensure the Safety of the Travelling Public

February 12, 2008 -- Washington D.C. – U.S. Senators Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl are calling on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to address an air traffic controller shortage at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee. Feingold and Kohl’s concerns were raised after hearing that the Milwaukee airport is currently suffering a 30 percent shortage in air traffic control specialists.    » read more »

January 14, 2008 -- The City of Chicago has signed a 20-year agreement for the Federal Aviation Administration Agency to occupy the North Air Traffic Control Tower now under construction as part of the O’Hare Modernization Program (OMP), U.S. Senator Richard J. Durbin and Mayor Richard M. Daley announced today.

The agreement will allow Chicago to recover $42.3 million it spent building the tower and will allow it to complete the construction of the tower in time for the successful commissioning of the new runway 9L/27R, which is scheduled for November of this year.    » read more »

Menendez has pressured FAA about need for NJ/NY regional approach to addressing delays

December 19, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Transportation announced several actions meant to reduce air traffic congestion and flight delays in the New Jersey/New York region, including an intention to cap flights at Newark Liberty Airport, a cap on flights at New York’s JFK Airport beginning in March, an auctioning off of new capacity at the region’s airports and a beginning of the implementation of the regional airspace redesign.    » read more »

December 19, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) issued the following statement after the Bush Administration announced plans to limit flights at Newark Liberty International and John F. Kennedy International Airport:    » read more »

Legislation Included in FY 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill; Amendments Require Bush Administration to Develop Plan to Ease Congestion in NY/NJ/Philly Airspace

December 19, 2007 -- Washington, DC – New Jersey and New York’s U.S. Senators announced today that the Senate has approved two measures they authored to reduce flight delays and ease congestion in the New York/New Jersey airspace as part of the Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations Bill.    » read more »

December 19, 2007 -- Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today asked the U.S. Senate to demand the nominee to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) agree as a condition of his confirmation to junk new flight paths routing more airplanes over southwestern Connecticut.

A hearing will be held tomorrow on acting FAA Administrator Robert Sturgell's nomination to permanently head the agency.    » read more »

Delays, airspace redesign, safety issues at Newark will be discussed

December 18, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – With a number of serious New Jersey air travel issues swirling, Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) will meet with the Acting Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Robert Sturgell, tomorrow in the Senator’s office.    » read more »

Bill rejects President Bush's expected piecemeal approach to air delays by limiting flights into New York's JFK Airport, forcing more planes into Newark

December 17, 2007 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – In anticipation of President Bush’s announcement to cap flights into New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, Sens. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ) today introduced a bill to reduce delays and congestion for air travelers across the entire New Jersey-New York region, one of the busiest in the nation for national and international air travel as well as air freight.    » read more »

December 11, 2007 -- Rather than working with the airlines and the Port Authority to improve customer service by expanding capacity at JFK, the FAA has instead chosen to charge every passenger more without improving service.

The Administration's plan will not just hurt passengers, it will cut off millions of travelers who fly in and out of JFK, choking a critical engine in New York State's economy.    » read more »

Lautenberg, Oberstar, Costello release report, chide FAA

December 5, 2007 -- WASHINGTON—Three Congressional leaders on aviation safety today released a Government Accountability Office study showing that ground operations at the nation’s airports have not been improved in more than five years.    » read more »

November 15, 2007 -- MR. STANZEL: Good afternoon. We'll go ahead and get started here. Thank you all for being here. We're joined today for this on-the-record briefing, off-camera briefing by Secretary Mary Peters, Secretary of Transportation; also experts here from DOT and FAA. We have FAA Acting Vice President of Systems Operations Nancy Kalinowski and D.J. Gribbin, who is the DOT General Counsel, who can answer questions, as well, about regulatory process.

So with that I'll turn it over to the Secretary for a few comments and then we'll take your questions.    » read more »

News report reveals that 73 flight have landed at Newark with minimum fuel over a six month period, 10 under emergency conditions

November 7, 2007 -- WASHINGTON – The amount of flights landing at Newark Liberty International Airport with dangerously low amounts of fuel has skyrocketed this year, spurring U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) to urge the Federal Aviation Administration to investigate the situation.    » read more »

November 1, 2007 -- Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Gov. M. Jodi Rell today announced the state has sued to block new Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) flight paths that route more large planes lower over southwestern Connecticut, damaging the region's environment.    » read more »